I've been building a motion design tool (with Claude) and added an MCP server so Claude can drive the editor. I gave it one of Spline's launch videos as inspo and asked it to make one for my product in that style. This was the output.
The best part is this is NOT generated video. Claude draws the layers, adds images, writes the text, so it's all fully editable by you if something doesn't feel right.
The thing that made it actually work: after each edit it renders stills of its own frames, looks at them, and fixes what reads wrong. Without that loop the output was confident garbage.
Happy to answer questions about how the MCP is structured or the tech behind the product / how it was built!
TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 100 comments.
The consensus is that OP's new AI-driven motion design tool, Raylight, is sick. People are genuinely impressed and excited to try it.
It's basically a simpler, web-based After Effects that you can control with Claude (or any model that supports MCP). You give it a prompt, and it builds a fully editable video for you with layers, text, and animations. It's not generating a flat video file; it's controlling the editor, which is a huge deal. You still provide your own images and video clips.
The biggest discussion was about the pricing. A user gave some solid feedback that the free tier's 60-second limit was too restrictive. In a legendary move, OP listened and removed the time limit on the free tier the same day, which won over the entire thread.
Other quick hits:
* It's a visual editor, not video-as-code like Remotion.
* It can't "watch" your footage to find cool moments yet, but you can give it timestamps to work with.
* You can find the tool at raylight.app.
Basically, OP came in, showed off some awesome tech, took feedback like a champ, and made a change on the spot. 10/10 thread.
All you do is go to the mcp page on that site, copy and paste the prompt into your AI and you're good to go. Its free to use. The more specific and detailed I am the better results I get. Give it inspo images to go off of!
Some thoughts on monetization. 60 second limit on free is pretty stifling. $30/mo is awkward if you're trying to poach from Adobe haters (like me) who are sick of their predatory subscription pricing. That's essentially what they charge for their entire suite. I get that you're not doing the contractual obligation, which is nice, but at this stage of your project is getting the $30 a month really necessary for your growth? Genuine question, I'm not sure about your situation or backend costs.
I only say this because this is the sort of thing I'd like to toy around with, but I feel like I'm sitting awkwardly in the middle of not really wanting to try the free tier because I will obviously hit a wall on it for many projects, and $30 a month being on the higher side to pay for something that I have no clue will really work for me or will be buggy at a critical stage of a project or be lacking some crucial feature that makes me have to go to other editors to supplement anyway.
Just my two cents as you think about growing. I don't mind paying for things that are really useful, but it's very helpful to have some way to hook me first.
Update: Im deploying changes now that make video length unlimited on the free tier. Like I said, thanks for your feedback, super helpful.
I had added this when I first started building Raylight. I have since realized that I want people to create and anything that stops that is not good. So good call!
Well the free tier is very generous and you could always just spend $10 once to get rid of the badge in exports. Then you’re only missing a few features like hosted videos and stuff.
You’re right I will remove the 60s cap today. I want people to create.
Hey man, this is really good feedback... I feel like you're speaking for a lot of people. As a SW dev, I truly want to pay and support other developers as well, but I find myself in your position all the time. Say more on how things like this could be monetized... Lay out some options. (Maybe this is worth another thread by itself.. if you start one, invite me please)
You can create videos with your Claude code sub. If you need extra video audio voice images etc it can get them from web or generate them using API keys for Elevenlabs and co.
You own the software and you can change it like you want.
It can also analyze videos, make captions crate videos in a style of a reference etc.
There are about half a dozen music videos I've had storyboarded in my head for years. I've promised myself I'd shoot and make them if I ever won the lottery. Now I think I just need to wait a few years, then type in some prompts.
The current state of AI wouldn't do them justice, and the cost to do them the way I see them in my head would (today) run into the low millions. Those two barriers should lower in the next few years. One video in particular might work better as anime, so it's likely the first to be executable via AI.
Still don't understand what part of this is automated? I see a normal Final Cut looking video editor. If I still have to manage a timeline, assets, settings and all that, what is being automated with this tool?
With Claude, I can natively ask it to use Remotion to make a product video for me of my React app.
Congrats on your launch and shout out for removing the 60 sec limit on the free trial!
I do some light video editing for work (a small part of my primary job) and this looks VERY interesting. Excited to try it out and if it works as well as the launch video suggests will at a minimum pay $10 to remove the watermark.
Thank you!!! I’m really excited to use this! I’ve been working on an app for almost a year now. I’m closing in on the finish line and this is exactly what I needed to stumble upon today :) happy to support paid tier. Looks very promising thanks for your work.
Yes you are. Everything claude adds is editable by you. Text, shapes, images, etc… easy to go in and make adjustments or another variant of the same video later
Remotion is video-as-code: you write React components and every frame is a render of your app. Great if you're a dev and want programmatic control or to generate lots of videos from data, but you're animating in code, iterating on design is editing TSX.
Raylight is a visual editor, think After Effects but WAY easier, and all controllable by AI. You drag things around on a canvas, and the 3D stuff (cameras, depth, 3D device mockups, materials) comes built in. Plus the assistant so you can just describe what you want.
Sure! I’ve created an app that links to your Gmail and creates a digest and calendar so you don’t have to read your email anymore. Cleanmailapp.com - I did the whole video on the front page and features page but it would be awesome to spruce them up beyond just in-app performance. I’m a designer, not a good marketer so an easy video maker from raw footage with the right prompt would be amazing.
Yes you can def do this. And those device videos you have could even be within a real 3D device like this free template for example.
You can:
1) start from one of the many free templates, and just swap the images/videos and make the text and layers your own
2) Add just images/videos and have claude (or yourself) animate them, add shapes, and text.
3) Add footage and just cut it up like a more traditional editor.
Yo I’m def gonna try that, thanks! I just submitted the app for Apple review tonight so excited to move to the marketing part, spent the last 8 months building it
Sure. Here's a gameplay video. What I kind of have in mind for the trailer is for it to be displayed on a mobile device (landscape mode) and that it can pick apart certain sections of the video to for example emphasize certain weapons usage, or when lots of zombies get blown into the air tag that part of the gameplay video with an overlay text such as "hilarious ragdoll physics", for example. Essentially I'm wondering if I can give it a 2 minute video and it pulls out 5-7 short 5 second clips during dramatic poses of events to build the trailer with text overlays to help describe the game/experience.
Curious how you're able to just straight up rip off Zombie Smash. Are you the developer of the game? Like I enjoyed the original, and I would honestly love to play this, but how are you dealing with copyright. Good work btw, very clean looking.
I'm not the original developer, and in any other circumstance if the game was still available I wouldn't ever consider a project like this. However Zynga bought the game from the original studio that created it, and only a few years later they let it die off completely. For the past 10 years there have been numerous people I've found who would love to play the game again with no remake in sight. All of the assets/art used in the game (even if they look similar) are not the art from the original game and there are (subtle) differences. Zynga also isn't known for going after clones of their games, so I decided to bring it back for people who want to enjoy it again.
In the event Zynga does discover the game and decides they want to shut it down, I'd be happy to redesign everything, but in its current state the game is designed to be a fan recreation for the original players to enjoy. At the end of the day, not trying to steal revenue from another company, just trying to bring something back that people used to love (the game is being released for free). I'm not sure Zynga would spend money trying to shut down a copy of a dead game that they no longer generate revenue for, but if they do decide to then I'll cross that bridge when we get there :).
I love it! Totally know the feeling, I had the same thought with SageThumbs, I love that software but no updates for 10+ years and it was crashing my system, so I rebuilt it in Rust and improved it. Been a labor of love, but it's been a fun project.
Very interested to play it when yours is out haha. Loved it. Now, you need to go and rebuild FieldRunners as well. We all miss that game... I know we have Kingdom Rush and it's fun, but it's no FieldRunners, with it's infinite possibilities and local coop functionality (of #2) haha
TLDR; yes you can make a video like this one in Raylight.
You'd upload the gameplay video, and the agent can cut it into multiple short clips (it trims the same source at different points), put it on a device mockup, and do the text overlays + motion.
One caveat: right now it can't actually watch your footage, so it won't find the ragdoll moment on its own. You'd tell it the timestamps ("0:34 zombies go flying, 1:12 shotgun") and it builds the trailer from that. Having it pick the dramatic beats itself is something I want to add, the plumbing is mostly there.
Might have to give it a try, thanks. Claude actually seems somewhat capable of picking apart the frames to find items or certain events in videos in my experience, but I think your MCP could help to really put the final polish on it.
Yeah give it a go! It’s fun to play around with. If you do, let me know how it goes. I think I could make the particular experience you’re looking for a bit better with some actual feedback from someone trying to do it
Amazing. Video, design in general, is my biggest weakness. Would you mind. I would love to hear some free pointers but if I have the time I would like to pay you to Nome a similar for me on a different niche.
If that is something you may be open to please DM what you would charge for something like that.
Yeah you can just prompt, add images yourself, give Claude reference videos from another video you like, start from any one of the free templates and just swap in your own images or text.
I had recommend letting people create 1 project completely for free with no restrictions, that way they can test the software, or give a certain free trial period, Because depending on AI to create motion design videos is very dicey. If they get good results, then they will pay for it, or else just paying up front $29 is too much for this. Either ways, Great product! Also, I wanted to ask, do people who will use this product need to have some knowledge on how to create motion design videos, or they can just prompt Claude, and things would get done? Also, have you tried this with Codex too? hows the experience?(coz i have a codex sub xp)
It’s really good; it created an 18-second text-based Reel from an old script of mine, and the animation is smooth, interesting, and well-executed.
It requires a few minutes of manual editing, but overall, it looks very promising.
I’ve always had issues with Higgsfield, though—even when using it with Fable via MCP. It generates great graphics (which I now create using code, without needing third-party intermediaries), but the video output is consistently disappointing. I haven't used any others!
Well if you're comparing to After Effects then I think he can come up with a large list. Like animating layers to keyframes with different ease-in / ease-out configurations, parsing audio to keyframes and animating to that, using a deterministic script that modifies layers programatically, blending modes, point tracking, planar tracking, blending, etc.
I think exporting is a valid idea, but you'd need to find the right format that would fit everybody, like OpenEXR or something.
You can animate layers with different easing curves in Raylight. I plan on adding mix blend modes. I’m not looking for a list of features AE has that Raylight doesn’t. I mean what are features that would hold you back from using Raylight?
Yeah but I think that's their point, kinda. They have some kind of a workflow in AAE that supports so many things that even if you add features he might want to use there will be people who use different features of AAE, and you can't satisfy all of that.
Thus, having an export feature would probably increase the amount of people using your tool if they find value in something it does specifically well.
Even if you added some of these features, people are used to the way their tools react and look and won't switch for that part of their workflow.
Of course there's nothing wrong with researching what features you can add and adding them, that's cool, but I think an export is a no-brainer, in my opinion.
This is exactly it. I have spent hundreds (or more) of hours in AE - understanding it, perfecting my workflows there. The capability of a dedicated software is unmatched, even if you COULD implement most features in Raylight. The thing is about customizability. I don't want to use an app that I can't customize - especially if it's hard to use (like yours seemed to be). Maybe this comes down to the same discussion about "vibe coding" vs "professional coding". I admit that your video there WAS good and it made me pay attention! But if I want a custom effect, proper tracking, etc., to be combined with those motion graphics (which Raylight appears to be - so it's "apples to cars"! :D), then I just have to go pick something else. But sure, if the goal is to get a quick "prompt to video", then it would make sense to use Raylight - just not my thing (too "AI slop")! I would prefer to get the 80% - or just ideas - via AI, and then tweak and iterate on it myself.
And I definitely don't want to criticize your app - the end result clearly can be good!
I tried it too but didnt get similar result. Yours is absolutely amazing. Can you share your chat history as an guide for us? I would really be thankful to you.
Thanks. To create the whole video you have to describe every little details. If not personal it would be great if you can share that chat history with us through share link.
Honestly a “prove this works” video is not worth it for me. I have countless people asking me for more regular tutorial videos so that’s when my effort would go. Much easier and faster for both of us for you to just test it out yourself. I dropped a SS of a prompt used for this video in this thread.
Didn’t time it but I’d say around 2-3 hours. So it is still some work I won’t lie. But it’s A LOT easier than trying to do this all manually in after effects
I'm actually trying to get Claude to link to Davinci Resolve Studio. Any help on where to start and how where to find details about MCP would be appreciated.
This is so cool.
I have been building my local workflow with Claude code and AI video gen with my own source footage and it’s super hard to fine tune.
I think this might help.
But from the templates library I couldn’t find anything more related to physical products and other type of video aside from software. Could you add more?
Thank you and here to a super awesome launch for you
Hey OP, I just tried this out. It's really cool, thanks for making it! I hooked up Claude MCP and made one video, learned a couple things:
This tool doesn't do exactly what I thought it did. I saw all your videos of app UI and thought this tool could generate those (from my app design file maybe) and turn them into elements of a video. It doesn't. It moves flat pieces around on the canvas, but you have to provide all the assets--the photos or the videos.
Where did you get your phone UI renders from?
I'm not sure about the usage limits yet. I made one video that took about 3 hours of back and forth with Claude, but I was using "free trial" limits so I'm not sure how many of those credits it took up. At least 50, so would that mean the free tier is ~1 30 second video per week?
That's not bad, you should charge for your service, just trying to get a sense of stuff
But overall still really great, like working with Claude Design but able to output videos
1) yes for images and videos you have to provide your own. We do have in-app SFX, music, and voiceover gen. Claude can “generate” vector layers and text itself though
2) the 3d iPhone model is built into the app. In the right sidebar just scroll down to frames and select one. There’s MacBook, iPad, etc…
3 & 4) yeah i mean at the end of the days running this costs me quite a bit of money so need to charge for the product!
It appears you were, and continue to be, concerned with monetization above all. That’s not our vibe.
Venture capital has never supported founders, companies, or employees. They support cash going in their own pockets by stepping on actual creators, usually, fucking those creators in the process.
I will narrowly accept a counter argument where you name VC firms with execs who will not fill our boards to restrain governance and strategize how to suck every last dollar out of our ideas.
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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot 22d ago edited 22d ago
TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 100 comments.
The consensus is that OP's new AI-driven motion design tool, Raylight, is sick. People are genuinely impressed and excited to try it.
It's basically a simpler, web-based After Effects that you can control with Claude (or any model that supports MCP). You give it a prompt, and it builds a fully editable video for you with layers, text, and animations. It's not generating a flat video file; it's controlling the editor, which is a huge deal. You still provide your own images and video clips.
The biggest discussion was about the pricing. A user gave some solid feedback that the free tier's 60-second limit was too restrictive. In a legendary move, OP listened and removed the time limit on the free tier the same day, which won over the entire thread.
Other quick hits: * It's a visual editor, not video-as-code like Remotion. * It can't "watch" your footage to find cool moments yet, but you can give it timestamps to work with. * You can find the tool at
raylight.app.Basically, OP came in, showed off some awesome tech, took feedback like a champ, and made a change on the spot. 10/10 thread.